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Team Pacquiao nails 1st big point
LOS ANGELES, California-The routine countdown was shelved and the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez skirmish had an unscheduled start outside the ring over the weekend. The Philippine side scored the first big point.…
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Pacquiao completes training in LA
Los Angeles ? Under searing late spring heat that swept the city, they broke camp, packed and awaited the journey for the desert for what has long been regarded as a date…
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GMA rallies nation behind Manny?s bout versus Mexican
President Arroyo yesterday called on the entire nation to unite and rally behind boxer Manny Pacquiao for his much-awaited bout against Mexican champion Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand in Las…
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Pacquiao?s too strong for champ
The oddsmaking tides have slightly tilted in favor of Manny Pacquiao as his date with Juan Manuel Marquez draws closer. Installed earlier as a 7-5 underdog against Marquez, the odds have dropped…
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Is Juan Manuel Marquez the Featherweight Winky Wright?
It took Winky Wright almost 10 years to finally land a superfight against one of the 147-154 pound superstars. Year after year he had to watch De La Hoya, Mosley, and Trinidad…
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No echar?n en saco roto la preparaci?n de Juan Manuel M?rquez
La primera pelea que realiz? Juan Manuel M?rquez en su carrera la perdi? por descalificaci?n en el primer asalto ante Javier Dur?n el 29 de mayo de 1993, pero no fue por…
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A 50-50 Fight
Now that we got all the heavyweights out of the way, we can turn our attention to some real fights. This Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Manny Pacquiao…
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Pacquiao’s popularity on the rise
Manny Pacquiao already had appeared in several Filipino action movies, so he had a fairly high level of popularity in his native Philippines before he knocked out Marco Antonio Barrera in the…
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Pacquiao: I am Ready
LOS ANGELES-Filipino featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao and trainer Freddie Roach think they have trained long and hard and are fully prepared for war. Tomorrow, they go to battle after breaking camp Sunday…
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Count on featherweights’ hits to be heavier than the hype
While the wait goes on for Mike Tyson to either save boxing from itself or send it into even further disrepair, a couple of featherweights have a chance, a very good chance,…
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Partisan Pride at Stake-Marquez vs. Pacquiao
I gave you my pick'em selection in the article posted last Tuesday, Manny Pacquiao out hustling Juan Manuel by putting up a high volume punches, it could be the way it transpires?…
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Viewing Marquez: Pacquiao, Roach don’t see eye-to-eye
LOS ANGELES, California -- Manny Pacquiao and his renowned trainer, Freddie Roach, share a winning formula, a secret weapon they've vowed to explode at the end of the week. However, the two…
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Champ out to wow Vegas crowd again
LOS ANGELES?Juan Manuel Marquez knows what it is like to fight under the klieg lights of Las Vegas. The Mexican warrior has fought there 10 times, while his Filipino foe on May…
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ROACH SAYS PACQUIAO HUNGRY,READY TO FIGHT
Freddie Roach, 2003 ?Trainer of the Year? said yesterday that Manny Pacquiao, recognized as ?The People?s Champion? following his eleventh round devastation of legendary featherweight king Marco Antonio Barrera is ?hungry and…
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THE A CLUB
My first year of graduate school is almost over. Almost. I am struggling to type that last page, paragraph, word that symbolizes a four month respite. I might even get straight A's,…
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Pacquiao refuses to divulge ‘sure-win’ plot vs Marquez
LOS ANGELES, California - Filipino Manny Pacquiao swore he has perfected a formula to wrest the twin world boxing crowns of Juan Manuel Marquez but cautiously explained on Saturday that he was…
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California Latinos turn Pacquiao presscon into autograph session
GLENDALE, California?Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao got the surprise of his life when a horde of Latino fans showed up Friday at the press conference for his May 8 clash with Juan…
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Experts agree Manny in toughest test ever
The consensus is it won?t be a picnic. Although he?s slightly favored to win, Manny Pacquiao is taking no chances against World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) featherweight champion…
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Houston say Pacquiao likely to beat Marquez by decision
PEOPLE?S featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao finally got a staunch believer among noted boxing scholars abroad after a well-known analyst in Graham Houston of Boxing Monthly magazine picked the Filipino ring superstar to…
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UK magazine picks Pacquiao
LOS ANGELES ? A British boxing publication reported in its latest issue which came out on Thursday that Mexico?s Juan Manuel Marquez, who faces Filipino Manny Pacquiao, will be in for a…
